...1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) The three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era are adaption, arrangement, and original music. Adaption follows the strategy of borrowing pieces of existing music. The pieces do maintain majority of their original structure, but may be tweaked to the fit the film better. “Symphony No. 6”, by Ludwig Van Beethoven, is a great illustration of this in Birth of a Nation. The second type of music, arrangement, also follows the strategy of borrowed pieces, however it only uses the melody of the track. The melody is then altered with new accompaniments and arrangements. The Birth of a Nation shows this idea through “Maryland, My Maryland”, which utilizes the same melody as “O Christmas Tree”. Finally, original music was used, consisting of pieces written specifically for the film. Carl Breil, the score composer for Birth of a Nation, demonstrates this type of music through many leitmotifs paired with certain characters throughout the movie. For example, Elsie’s joyous and naïve tune. With adaptation you borrow substantial portions of existing music, usually classical, for use in film score. The music should remain largely in tack, although it can be altered or adapted to fit the film. Some examples of adaption can be heard in The Birth of a Nation, one is the use symphony No.6 by...
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...Silent Film Era Chapters 6 - 8 Silent Film Era 1895-1927 ! Principal Questions ! ! ! ! Where were films shown? Who played the music? What music did they play? Who created the music? ! Some major silent films Theaters ! Films were first viewed as part of other shows, often vaudeville shows ! Nickelodeons began to appear in 1905 ! By 1908, over 5,000 established in US ! After 1913, building of Movie Palaces ! Roxy theater, built in 1927, seats 6,214! The Music ! Who chose the music? ! Generally the theater music director ! Original scores rare until the 1920s ! What type of music was played? ! Adaptations of Classics ! Arrangements of tunes ! Newly composed Who Played the Music? ! Nickelodeon - pianist ! Organs became dominant instrument: Wurlitzer ! Gradual growth ! Small number (chamber group) ! Small orchestra (13 or 14) ! Full orchestra (50 - 100) The Birth of a Nation ! Director: D.W. Griffith ! Composer: Joseph Carl Breil ! First masterpiece in film ! ! ! ! Noted for length Exploration of cinematography techniques Brilliant use of film to further the plot Film score created specifically for this film ! Flaw: racist The Big Parade Music for Birth of a Nation » One of the best American silent films » The biggest box-office hit of the 1920s » Much is playful and romantic, increasing the horror of realistic battle scenes ! Uses all three types ! Adaptations ! Arrangements ! New ! Best remembered...
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...Hundreds of CDs, a few dozen LPs and a couple of books on film music. Can this prepare me for a 4000 word essay on the development of film music in American cinema? You bet it can. The topic of the essay for the unit of study American Film and Hollywood in my US Studies course will be about the development of film music over the last century, but in particular how it just isn’t as good as it used to be, and there are people to blame for this, which I’ll get to further below. When you’re passionate about film music and you’ve been listening to the works of composers such as Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Horner, John Barry, and many others from the so-called Silver Age of American cinema, you develop a certain taste and an in-built aural detector forms in your brain, connected to your ears, that makes you automatically know what separates a good film score from a bad one. Hell, even some bad film scores can have a sense of fun about them, even if they draw attention to themselves because film score aficionados are tuned into their siren-like abilities that lure us in to take notice and enjoy it for what it is. It may have a certain charm about it that makes it unique. Then you take a look back at the Golden Age film scores of Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman, Roy Webb, Alex North, Dimitri Tiomkin, and you realize that these guys were true musical artists working with an antagonistic studio system, but they delivered so many winners...
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...all day, I didn't really have time to post something. Well I would if I wasn't watching Schindler's List again, but when the mood strikes, one should watch that film. So here is an essay that I wrote a couple of months ago for school, which is all about film piracy and why I'm against it. The essay managed to get an extremely high excellence. See how different my writing is when I'm at school compared to when I'm blogging (if I seem to be over-exaggerating a lot this is because I'm just trying to get my point across, as I am supposed to be writing this essay for a 'school magazine'): In 1927, the first sound movie, called The Jazz Singer, was made. After years of silence on film, finally someone had successfully combined talking and music with what was happening on screen. This was the first of many cinematic milestones achieved through advancing technology. Since then there have been several introductions: Technicolour, Cinemascope, 3D, and even a brief trial with Aromascope...all of these opportunities used to try make cinema-going a more involving experience. However, advancing technology has also had a negative effect on the film industry. Since videos have become a form of watching a movie, film piracy has slowly become a huge problem, but even more so since the internet has become more powerful. Internet film piracy has become a global epidemic. As internet usage has expanded and there is now a lot more space to download and share files, pirates have been using this to...
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...FILM AND MUSIC So what is music? Well in a sense every sound produced from clapping two hands to slapping a person is music; The more recognized pundits define it as an arrangement of sounds in a pleasing sequence or combination to be sung; or played on instruments. Well who cares about music in a prolonged sense- music are something universal, something unique, and something which is soothing to our heart, our senses, which makes our nerves calm down- the effect is simply astonishing. Its like a web you have been caught in, a web of music, a web in which where ever you go you find music, music to touch your heart, to take you, in a sense, under its control. And why not- music tames the wildest beasts- even the critics have no answer to that Music is of many types- rock, jazz, classical raga, pop, flat, country, chamber, folk- yes folk is there too. Every community has some sort of traditional music to suit their rhythm. Then there is classical music that portrays the life's culture and tradition, rock music that tends to shake you up, and several other types of music that are all a pure bliss to the soul. Music has very deep roots in the history of humankind. It is as ancient as verbal language. Man produced various sounds- frightening of course- to scare off the savage beasts of the wild. He soon enough learnt that striking of stones produces sound, the gush of the falling water gives sound, animals and birds produce sound and even lightning with rainstorm produces...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix D Goal Evaluation Matrix Choose five of the scenarios in Appendix C and evaluate the goals according to the SMART criteria. Provide support for your evaluation. | |S |M |A |R |T | |Goal setter and goal |Is the goal specific? |Is the goal measurable? |Is the goal attainable? |Is the goal realistic? |Is the goal timely? | |James: |Yes |No. |No. |No |Yes | |Play middle linebacker for the | | | | | | |San Diego Chargers |He wants to be a linebacker. |He has to find someone that |In order to be a professional |It looks like he hasn’t played |It will take a lot of time to | | | |will sign him in a contract. |athlete one must be playing |this sport before. His age, and|get into shape and finding a | | | | |that sport for...
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...Human sexuality final study guide--------------------------Dylan Nguyen Please feel free to pass to you friends if it could help. Chapter 9--- Birth Zygote: upon successful fertilization, the DNA of the man’s sperm and the woman’s ovum join together, and a new organism, combining the genetic material of both, is created. Within hours, this organism, now called the ZYGOTE (P336)-A fertilized ovum (or egg) moving down the fallopian tube. Then it divided into 2-4-8 and so on, travel down the fallopian tube to the uterus in 2 to 4 days. –HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) increase in woman body, enable to determine of pregnancy through urine. Within two weeks the test is more reliable. Conception may occur, however woman is not yet pregnant because zygote have not yet implant into the lining of the uterus. During conception do not use alcohol/other drugs/take prenatal vitamin that contain FOLIC ACID ( an important B-vitamin for fetal development)-no smoking, drug use, health life style before conception occurs. Blastocyst: 400-500 fertility cycles in an average woman’s fertile lifetime.—if no pregnancy occur the: progesterone and estrogen level diminish ( during second half of woman cycle). Blood flow decreases to uterus, shed of linning. If fertilization occur: thickening of uterus wall, about 4 day after fertilization the Zygote enter the wall, consist of approximately 90 cells surrounding a fluid-filled core. It is called BLASTOCYST On 6-7 days, endometrium lining form...
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...LAW and FREEDOM The purpose of Law and Freedom is to promote freedom under law, as we enter more lawless times. Law becomes tyrannical without freedom, and freedom becomes predatory without law. A free society under law will always be more prosperous and peaceful. There are three threats to the survival of state authority in Britain and Europe. First, economic breakdown. If the state goes bankrupt, the machinery of law disappears. This is the immediate problem. Second, welfare dependence and collapse. This is the underlying problem. Third, ethnic division, particularly between Islamic and non-Islamic society, and the violence at the heart of Islamic doctrine. This is the most visible problem, and the one that people will blame. Together, these three problems risk creating the conditions for lawless violence. Political and intellectual elites are undermining our laws and freedoms. So we need to take what action we can to preserve them ourselves. The Law and Freedom Foundation is not associated with the English Defense League ------------------------------------------------- Law Law is a term which does not have a universally accepted definition,[2] but one definition is that law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behaviour.[3] Laws can be made by legislatures through legislation (resulting instatutes), the executive through decrees and regulations, or judges through binding precedents (normally...
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...UNIT NAME: MEDIC RACE: Terran RANK: 1st Lieutenant VITAL STATISTICS Hit Points: 60 Armor Class: Light Armor: 1 COSTS Mineral: 50 Gas: 25 Food: 1 TECH TREE Built From: Barracks Pre-Requisite: Academy WEAPONS Weapon System: none Attack Type: n/a Damage Class: n/a Splash Damage: n/a Damage: n/a Bonus: n/a SPELLS/SPECIAL ABILITIES Heal (Spell) Casting Cost: 1 mana point for every 2 hp healed Range: 2 Description: The Medic starts with this spell and may cast it on any organic ground units to heal damage. Restoration (Spell) Casting Cost: 50 Range: 6 Matrix Description: The Medic may cast this spell on any unit to remove harmful spell effects (does not affect Stasis Field, but does include Lockdown) Optic Flare (Spell) Casting Cost: 75 Range: 8 Matrix Description: Targeted spell. The unit hit will have his sight range reduced to 1 matrix permanently (unless restored by Medic). The unit affected should have ‘Blinded’ displayed in info box. Also removes detection ability if the unit had any. NEW UPGRADES Restoration (Spell) Researched at: Academy Research Cost: 100m, 100g Optic Flare (Spell) Researched at: Academy Research Cost: 100m, 100g Caduceus Reactor (+50 Mana Capacity) Researched at: Academy Research Cost: 150m, 150g UNIT NAME: VALKYRIE FRIGATE RACE: Terran RANK: Lt. Commander VITAL STATISTICS Hit Points: 200 Armor...
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...Why We Should End Hazing in Greek Life Some people may think that hazing isn’t a problem or might just think it doesn’t happen at all. These opinions are because hazing happens behind closed doors and has become very secretive because of the amount of trouble students can get in if they are caught. I feel that hazing has become a huge problem among universities and really needs to be addressed on to find solutions. Hazing in general can happen in sports teams, high school and the military, but I feel that it is currently a huge issue in college Greek Life. It is a huge problem among many universities across the country and there have been laws passed in some states to end it, but it always seems to occur in many fraternities and sororities. Hazing does not only affect people physically, but mentally as well. It is an abuse of power that can have devastating and life-threatening consequences. When I think of hazing, I immediately think of forcing a younger student to drink alcohol in a short amount of time. I personally think that a person should not have to drink alcohol or do an asinine prank to become a member of a group. It is a group working towards a certain cause and they shouldn’t be associating alcohol with their induction into the group. There have been many tragic events that have happened in the past that have been related to hazing in college. Statistics from Hank Nuwer (1990) show that hazing has been associated with more than 50 deaths in college fraternities...
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...1. The three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era, were adaptations, newly composed music, and arrangements. Adaptations of classical works are usually used in action and dramatic scenes and involve borrowing of a substantial portion of an existing composition for use in a film score. In The Birth of a Nation an example of adaptations was when a composition by Mozart was used for a scene that showed Lincoln’s assassination as well as for the ending of the entire movie. These music was used to portray the tension and violence in these scenes. Adaptations are the most prominent in the film. This type of music is meant to be very recognizable as well as well as true to the original piece. Newly composed music is music that is created to reflect themes that are highly specific to the storyline of the film. This new music is original and is created for the film. D.W. Griffith uses this time of music to create themes that run throughout the story and attach to specific characters and their role in the film. Themes can be altered throughout the film to reflect a change in the story or the mood. Arrangements are a new form of a previously composed melody. In an arrangement the film composer borrows the just the melody from a classic and creates an almost entirely new sound. In The Birth of a Nation, arrangements of well-known melodies are used to stir up emotions. Southern songs such as “Maryland, My Maryland”, “Old Folks at Home”, and “Dixie” remind...
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...straight forward love story with singing and dancing but as time went on the plots for more complicated and mature. They also experimented with different idea and themes as time went on. As time went on the backstage musical changed. While there was a lot of change, one interesting thing that doesn't really change are the people behind these movies. Fred Astaire, Busby Berkeley, Judy Garland, Arthur Freed, and many more seem to have been the go to people for these type of movies. Understandably, they are all unbelievably talented and great at what they do. Also it seemed like MGM was the production company of most of these types of films from that time. These are some of the things that I found haven't changed during the time in which these films prospered. This week we watched two films, A Star is Born and The Bandwagon. Both of these films are backstage musicals from the 1950's. These are great examples to show how this type of movie...
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...Chris P. Tracks for My Film 1. Empire State of Mind * Song Writers- Augello-Cook Alicia J, Carter Shawn C, Hunte Angela Ann, Keyes Bert, Robinson Sylvia, Sewell Janet Andrea, Shuckburgh Alexander William * The Music Publisher- J Sewell Publishing * The Identifying Code- 880387557 * Registered P.R.O’s- ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, PRS * Artist- Jay-z, Alicia Keys * Atlantic Records 2. My Apocalypse * Song Writers- Hammet Kirk L, Hetfield James Alan, Trujillo Robert, Ulrich Laris * Music Publisher- Creeping Death Metal * The identifying Code- 730912840 * Registered P.R.O- ASCAP * Artist- Metallica * Warner Bro’s 3. Welcome to the Black Parade * Song Writers- Bryar Robert C, Iero Frank, Toro Raymond, Way Gerard Arthur, Way Michael James * Music Publisher- Blow the Doors off ChicagoMusic * The Identifying Code- 530793581 * Registered P.R.O’s- ASCAP, BMI * Artist- My Chemical Romance * Reprise Reecords 4. Paparazzi * Song Writers- Fusari Robert D, Germanotta Stefani J, * Music Publishers- House Of GaGa Publishing, Sony/ATV Songs * The identifying code- 9902143 * Registered P.R.O’s- BMI, ASCAP * Artist- Lady GaGa * Interscope Records 5. Gimme Shelter * Song Writers- Jagger Michael Phillip, Richard Keith, * Music Publishers- ABKCO Music Inc. * The Identifying Code- 469085 * Registered P.R.O’s- BMI * Artist-Rolling Stones * Decca Records 6. Like...
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...European Management Journal VoI. 14, No. 6, pp. 596--611, 1996 ~ Pergamon S0263-2 373(96)00056-4 Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved 0263-2373/96 $17.00 + 0.00 Effective Organizational Control'. A Framework, Applications, and Implications ERIC FLAMHOLTZ, Professor of Management, University of California at Los Angeles This article by Eric Flamholtz provides a framework for understanding the nature, role, functioning, design, and effects of organizational control systems. It represents a model of control which can be used to make this process more visible in organizations. It illustrates the practical applications of the model, and suggests its implications for corporate and human resource management as well as for scholars. Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Introduction All organizations (businesses, universities, governments, hospitals) are concerned with channeling human efforts toward attainment of organizational objectives. Regardless of their formal purposes, organizations are composed of people with their own personal interests. Even if these individuals and groups wish to help attain organizational goals, the organization of which they are ,~=r~ must integrate their efforts and direct them toward goals. Thus, organizations must influence or the behavior of people, if they are to fulfil their nd achieve their goals. To help gain control over the behavior of people in formal organizations, most enterprises...
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...History of Music in Film Going to the movies is one of America’s top favorite pass times; and no movie-going experience would be complete without the accompanying sound tracks. The music in movies often heightens the suspense and deepens the drama. The right background music can make us fall in love with a character, be terrified of the villain, or even adore an unlikely hero. Starting with Silent films and continuing until today, music has been an important part in the movie industry. In the beginning, movies had no sound and eventually the studios figured out they needed something for their movies to be more entertaining. Very quickly they figured out music would supplement and go along well with the action on the screen. Music has always been able to affect people emotionally, so it made a perfect accompaniment for movies. In the early theaters, pianos quickly became a well-recognized fixture. Organs quickly followed and music became a permanent part of the movie-going experience. At first, it was up to musicians to choose what music they would play during the films; but the music still didn’t have a true designated purpose, other than used as filler. Eventually the studios began producing music for the musicians that was more suitable for the film. The music became more and more specialized based on what the studio wanted, until music was specifically written for each film. In fact, Charlie Chaplin composed his own music for some of his films. This was...
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